John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 44:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat, etc.] To be butchered, and then eaten as sheep are; and therefore are called “the flock of slaughter”, (<381104>Zechariah 11:4,7); as the church was, not only under the ten persecutions of Rome Pagan, but through the butcheries and massacres of Rome Papal; who have worried many of Christ’s sheep, have eaten their flesh and drank their blood, and have become drunken with it; it has been their meat and drink to persecute the saints of the most High; and hast scattered us among the Heathen: the Pagan world, as the first Christians were, who were scattered up and down in the Gentile world everywhere; (see <600101>1 Peter 1:1); or the Papacy, who are sometimes called Gentiles, (<661102>Revelation 11:2); because much of the Gentile idolatry is introduced into the Popish religion; and among these many of the true members of Christ and of his church have been carried captive and scattered; and such will be found there a little before the destruction of Babylon, and will be called out from thence; (see <661310>Revelation 13:10 18:4).

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